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Great for making jumper cables for your car. Overkill for most sound cables. Although... I once had to fabricate audiophile cables made with Litz wire, where each strand of wire had a coating that required volcanic temperatures to melt away so that the solder could stick. The pot was great for that.

Pots are more of a production tool.
It takes only a couple seconds to tin a wire with an iron.
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I agree. Sort the the thing you turn on when you come in in the morning and you use it all day.

I actually have a small solder pot that I picked up at a garage sale for a ridiculously low price (like 50 cents). It's really cute and works really well. Only it's WAY too big a pain to wait for it to heat up to use on any regular basis. Perhaps one day I'll have a weird tinning job that needs it but until then...

You were correct about the cuteness as well, I wouldn't mind having something like that among my tools either.
All the solder pot's I've seen have been a lot bigger, to the point of being very inconveient for simple tinning jobs.

yes, they are handy if you have a lot of wire to tin. they are also handy for soldering several wires together. And, of course you need to wait a long time for it to get hot and to dip the wires in a separate tin of rosin paste flux before you dip them in the solder.